Ring Of Honor TV – August 14, 2019: Enjoy It While You Can
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Ring of Honor
Date: August 14, 2019
Location: Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, New York
Commentators: Ian Riccaboni, Caprice Coleman
Hosts: Ian Riccaboni, Quinn McCay
It’s the new format around here and that is the best for everyone involved. The old style wasn’t working very well so cutting out the matches that aren’t interesting in the first place is a good move. Ring of Honor knows how to do the one match a show format and that is what we’ll be having going forward. Let’s get to it.
Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.
Opening sequence.
We open with a recap of Flip Gordon turning down Lifeblood to join Villain Enterprises, which is probably a better move for him given how much Lifeblood has died over the last few months.
We get some highlights of Dragon Lee vs. Jonathan Gresham at Manhattan Mayhem, including a lot of chopping and Gresham cheating a bit. Lee won with a running knee to the face.
Lee says he’s here for competition and will take on the wrestling world with his brother.
Gresham says he listened to Jay Lethal and lost. So much for that.
The Shinobi Shadow Squad trains, after having thrown ninja stars at a picture of Villain Enterprises.
Karissa Rivera wants the Women’s Title. She’s bringing the fight and leaving it all in the ring. Maybe then she can go work on getting some more original material.
Rhett Titus talks about his history with Kenny King as the All Night Express but then King walked out, leaving Titus’ career going nowhere. Then King came back to get the team together again, to more limited success. That led to the Rebellion and egads that was a bad idea. Then Titus teamed up with Will Ferrara as the Dawgs and I’m starting to feel sorry for Titus being saddled with so many bad ideas. Shane Taylor beat him in the Proving Ground match and King yelled at him about losing his fire. Maybe King is right, but Titus’ biggest mistake was not hitting him in the face.
Soldiers of Savagery vs. Corey Hexx/Geddy Cahoon
Geddy Cahoon is so awful of a name that I don’t even feel sorry when the double chokeslam gets the pin at 45 seconds.
Clip of the Bouncers coming up short against the Briscoes for the Tag Team Titles.
Clip of the pretty awesome street fight from a few weeks back between Lifeblood and Villain Enterprises.
Lifeblood/Flip Gordon vs. Villain Enterprises
Scurll and Williams start things off with a grappling exchange (of course) with Williams grabbing a cravate. Some shoving triggers a standoff and it’s off to Bandido vs. Gordon to some rather enthusiastic reactions. That means a fast standoff so King comes in and, just to show off, runs up the corner into a multiple springboards armdrag to take Bandido down
As big as King is, he can still be superkicked, meaning it’s off to Scurll vs. Haskins with the latter working on the arm. Black comes in to do the same as Lifeblood starts taking turns. A slingshot stomp gives Black two and Williams drops a slingshot legdrop for two of his own. King has had it and comes in to clean house, including a big flip dive over the top. PCO gets backdropped over the top onto Haskins and Williams as we take a break.
Back with PCO hitting a Swanton for two on Williams, followed by a double chokeslam from the monsters. We settle down to Gordon stomping Williams in the corner but Scurll takes too much time talking, allowing Williams to grab a suplex. Bandido comes in….and catches PCO’s crossbody because THAT’S SOMETHING HE CAN DO. Bandido’s twisting moonsault takes out the Villains on the floor (Caprice: “I don’t think that’s a real move!”) but Scurll grabs a rollup for two.
Back from another break with Haskins getting the hot tag and striking away at King and PCO. The monsters are sent outside so Haskins hits back to back suicide dives, followed by Williams striking away at King. Everything breaks down and it’s PCO moonsaulting onto the pile outside. Bandido is up with a sunset bomb to take PCO from the apron to the floor, leaving King to Batista Bomb Haskins for two. Bandido is back in with the 21 Plex to King, setting up Black’s springboard 450 for the pin at 17:43.
Rating: B. These teams have chemistry together but at the same time, I’m not sure what to expect when Scurll’s ROH contract is up later this year. That’s the problem with so many promotions at the moment: AEW is taking away so much talent and I’m not sure what the rest of the team is going to do without him. At least we got a good match on the way there though and that’s always a nice thing to have.
Overall Rating: C+. The new format continues to work, though I’m not sure how it’s going to work when they have more than a pair of big shows to deal with at a time. As in how many videos can you air without showing many of the matches? The show is a lot easier to watch now though and the big main event makes it even better. With so much content out there, ROH needs to find a way to stand out and while this might not be exciting, it’s efficient, and that might be better.
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